Grateful for Being Given Away

April 14, 2015 1:00 PM

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I am an Aussie girl currently living in Denver, Colorado -- the greatest city in the USA in my opinion. I have a wonderful relationship with a man who supports my most fantastical dreams, and we adopted a beautiful lab mix earlier this year. I just started my own business after years of longing to do so, and I have found my calling in my career. I can work from anywhere and any hours I choose, allowing me to spend time on the things I love to do -- playing the trombone, skiing, traveling and taking pictures of my adventures! I am grateful for all of this. But none of it is what I am most grateful for.

Contrast is a prerequisite for gratitude -- without darkness, how can there be light? As such, I have also experienced challenges during my life. I spent much of my childhood in hospital, a seemingly defective child that my parents were advised to "take back" more than once. I suffered from sleep ap...